Bilberries are pretty much everywhere in the forest near my home. However, this shrub is not one of them – it is their cousin: a bog bilberry. We call it "juolukka". I hoped to find them this spring, but I did not expect them to grow anywhere near my home. Then I just bump into a few shrubs last week in the woods without even looking. Well...

Their berries are edible, but not as prized as ordinary bilberries here in Finland, perhaps unfairly.

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